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SICK of watching truck drivers bully people on the roads, Gladstone region resident Eric Saffy is encouraging people to buy car cameras and help expose dangerous drivers.

Mr Saffy's car camera recorded two incidents of truck drivers on the Bruce Hwy between Miriam Vale and Gin Gin on Saturday at about 1.30pm that he alleges were unsafe.

He was driving south at the time.

The first incident involved a truck driver overtaking him on double white lines.

"I had the car on cruise control on 100km, so he would have had to be doing about 120km," Mr Saffy said.

He said the truck driver narrowly missed cars, and what made the actions of the driver more dangerous was that there were overtaking lanes for the other direction of traffic.

Mr Saffy alleges the second video, which was taken about seven minutes after the first incident, showed the same truck driver using both lanes to prevent anyone from overtaking him, and then another truck driver overtaking Mr Saffy and not allowing him any room to merge back into the lane.

The second driver's actions allegedly caused Mr Saffy to have to brake with the passenger side wheels off the road.

"They're going to kill somebody," he said.

Mr Saffy, who lives near Lake Awoonga and works at the Gladstone Area Water Board, travels the route between Miriam Vale and Gin Gin about once a month, and said he hadn't been shocked by the actions of the drivers because that area was a particularly bad stretch for speeding.